Eric Hellman wrote: > I think it's a good question, worth asking about *every* dev > position being hired for. I would be interested to hear an answer > from others on the list. In fact, I think the price of putting a > position announcement on Code4lib should be a willingness to answer > "why?". And "why not?" is a pretty pathetic answer. > > For me, I'm doing what I'm doing because I think it's important and > because no one else is doing it. I hope there are many other with a > similar answer. I answered part of this a while ago: http://www.news.software.coop/hi-why-are-you-doing/1000/ The tl;dr is "to provide computer-related services..." and I do that in a co-op so that we get hired for those services, not for our flesh and time. ;-) Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha